Experience & Service
This page highlights my professional experience and academic service roles.
Experience
- Associate Professor at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), CAS, Beijing, China, Oct. 2024 - now.
- Assistant Professor at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), CAS, Beijing, China, Oct. 2022 - Oct. 2024.
- Microsoft Search Intelligence & Assistant, Applied Scientist II, USA, July 2021 - August 2022.
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Research Assistant in CIIR, advised by Prof. W. Bruce Croft. Amherst, MA, USA, Sept. 2015 - Jul. 2021.
- Microsoft Research and MSAI, joint Research Intern, mentored by Dr. Pavel Metrikov and Dr. Chunyuan Li, Remote Internship, USA, July 2020 - August 2020.
- Microsoft Research and MSAI, joint Research Intern, mentored by Dr. Rahul Jha and Dr. Asli Celikyilmaz, Bellevue, WA, USA, May 2019 - August 2019.
- Amazon Search, Research Scientist Intern in Search Labs, mentored by Dr. Choon Hui Teo, Palo Alto, CA, USA, May 2018 - August 2018.
- Baidu Web Search, Senior Research Engineer at Learning to Rank Group, Beijing, China, July 2012 - July 2015.
- Yahoo! Labs, Intern Scientist, supervised by Dr. Xin Fan, Beijing, China, June 2012 - July 2012.
- Microsoft Research Asia, Research Intern at Information Retrieval and Mining Group, mentored by Dr. Yunhua Hu and Dr. Hang Li, Beijing, China, May 2010 - Feb. 2011.
Academic Services
Leadership
- SIGIR Forum Co-Editor (2025-2028).
- SIGIR-AP 2025 General Co-chair.
- NLPCC 2025 Tutorial Co-chair.
- SIGIR-AP 2023 Registration Chair.
Area Chair
- Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024.
- ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2025 (Oct.), 2026 (Jan.).
PC Member / Reviewer
- International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), (short) 2022, (long&short) 2023, (long) 2025, (long) 2026.
- ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2024 (Feb., June, Oct.), 2025 (Feb., May).
- The International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026.
- European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), (long) 2026.
- ACM SIGIR Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP) workshop proposal committee, 2025.
- ACM Web Conference (formerly known as International World Wide Web Conference, WWW), (long) 2025.
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), (short) 2020, (short&long) 2021, (long) 2022, (long&short) 2023, (long&short) 2024, (long) 2025.
- WSDM Workshop on Deep Matching in Practical Applications (DAPA), 2019.
- International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering (CSAE), 2019.
Journal Reviewer
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025.
- International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (IJDSA), 2025.
- Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2023.
- Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) 2022.
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2020.
- IEEE Access, 2019.